Jim Boylan is an idiot.

I know it’s been beaten to death already, but I just have to say it, after my anger in not winning a game today which would’ve given us a sweep over Detroit this season (not to mention we’re still in the East’s playoff “race”).

The following numbers are from today’s game:

Kirk : 18 minutes played (sure, some of that was foul trouble) and taken out of the game with 7:28 left to play…in the 3rd quarter. I guess when Boylan acknowledges that our defense “had so many breakdowns that they were just able to drive by us”, he means to say that putting Gordon in for Hinrich is a defensive move? Sure, BG was hot today, but why go with a combination of only Gordon/Hughes down the stretch in a close game? I thought Boylan said defense was the problem…

BG / Hughes : 3 pts, 1 ast, 1 TO, 1-4 FG, 1-2 FT in the last 5 minutes of the game. Not exactly clutch.

Gooden : 2-10 FG, 33 minutes played. If it weren’t for a lack of other options to play at power forward, I might be mad. Oh wait…

Tyrus : 4 minutes played. 4 minutes for a guy who should be starting right now. We got outrebounded 42-28, Gooden’s shots weren’t falling, and Boylan probably never had a single thought of putting Tyrus in. That’s our coach, everybody.

And now, Blog a Bull would like your attention. I believe they’re not big fans of Boylan either.

-Jack